Dr. Majid Fotuhi

In 2012, I decided, you know what?

I need to put the program together and apply these to real patients.

Talking in abstract and articles doesn't change people's lives.

So I took a bold move.

I decided to start my own neurology practice and put together this program, which I call the Brain Fitness Program.

This was 2012.

I started seeing patients in their 70s, early 80s, many of them in 60s, who had significant cognitive decline.

They weren't diagnosed with Alzheimer's yet, but they were not normal either.

They're in between.

It's called mild cognitive impairment.

And I put together a program that would address all the factors that shrink the brain and provide them with brain coaching that will help them to improve all the things that grow their brain.

And, you know, I thought that it would take nine months to see results.

So my initial program was nine months.

Then I thought, you know, people are getting better faster.

So I made it six months.

Six months, twice a week, people come to our brain center.

We will take care of all the medical problems.

I would act like a cardiologist.

I would send them for stress tests and I would take care of the sleep issues because I felt that I needed to take ownership of the patient.

And then I realized, you know, three months seems to be good.